Assessment of potential oil spill damage to salt marsh habitats and fishery resources in Galveston Bay, Texas

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dc.contributor.authorRozas LPen_US
dc.contributor.authorMinello TJen_US
dc.contributor.authorHenry CBen_US
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dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:16:23Z
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dc.date.issued2000en_US
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dc.description1148-1160en_US
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dc.description.abstractWe sampled nekton, benthic infauna, and sediments in salt marshes of upper Galveston Bay, Texas to examine relationships between habitat use and sediment hydrocarbon concentration. Most marsh sediment samples were contaminated with relatively low concentrations of weathered petroleum hydrocarbons. We found few statistically significant negative relationships between animal density and hydrocarbon concentration (6 of 63 taxa examined using simple linear regression). Hydrocarbon concentration did not contribute significantly to Stepwise Multiple Regression models we used to explore potential relationships between animal densities and environmental parameters; in most cases where hydrocarbon concentration was an important variable in the models, the relationship was positive (i.e., animal densities increased with hydrocarbon concentration). Low hydrocarbon concentrations in sediments of upper Galveston Bay marshes could have contributed to our results either because levels were too low to be toxic or levels were toxic but too low to be detected by most organismsen_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/23342
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dc.notesCompilation and indexing terms, Copyright 2004 Elsevier Engineering Information, Incen_US
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dc.relation.ispartofseries50945.00en_US
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dc.subjectSedimentsen_US
dc.titleAssessment of potential oil spill damage to salt marsh habitats and fishery resources in Galveston Bay, Texasen_US
dc.typeJournalen_US
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dc.vol-issue40(12)en_US

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